Weird DNS question

[Tyler Aviss]

My own domain has links to external CNAME's without any special config.
At the moment it I have 3 main definitions. One for mail, one pointing
to my LAN (which updates via dyndns), and a catch-all to the general
webserver for all others

* 600 IN A 123.123.123.123

MAIL 600 IN CNAME ghs.google.com

LAN 600 IN CNAME mysite.homeip.net

I see no technical reason you couldn't have foo.bar.ca pointing to
whatever external CNAME that you desire. If somebody knows a .ws
domain that I can test against, I can see the BIND running on my home
network can handle a CNAME for it when I return. Maybe their bind is
out-of-date and can't resolve the .WS TLD?


- TJA



On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Evan Leibovitch<evan-ieNeDk6JonTYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm having an "issue" with the friendly neighbourghood helpdesk.
>
> We own a domain  bar.ca
>
> The webmaster of the site has asked to create a CNAME for this domain:
> foo.bar.ca CNAME server.domain.ws
> (yes, that's .ws  -- Western Samoa)
>
> The local admins are saying they can't do this without locally defining an
> entry for server.domain.ws and that they can't make an entry for an
> "oddball" TLD such as .ws
>
> I *hate* "you can't get there from here" answers.
>
> If the folks at <domain.ws> have properly configured *their* DNS for host
> <server>, is it not enough for our CNAME (which is just an alias) to just
> point to it without needing to recreate it?
>
> Is there other voodoo that I'm missing here?
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> - Evan
>
>



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